Investigating the relationship between thinking styles and creativity, Tendency to Innovation and academic motivation in students

Purpose: this research has been designed and implemented with the aim of determining the relationship between thinking styles with creativity, orientation towards innovation and academic motivation in students. methodology: the research method was descriptivecorrelational and the sample consisted of 309 master students among twelve majors of the islamic azad university for kermanshah branch, which was selected by stratified random sampling method. the sternberg-wagner thinking styles questionnaire was used to determine the style of thinking, randsip's standardized questionnaire was used to assess the creativity, researcher-made questionnaire with likert comparison was used to determine the tendency for innovation, and also vallerand standard questionnaire has been used to assess the academic motivation. the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods including mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, tables and graphs of inferential statistics including multivariate regression. findings: the results of the research showed that there was a significant relationship between the executive, exterior, judiciary, legislator, individualist, minor, conservative thinking styles, with the creativity. however, there was no positive and significant relationship between the open mindedness, the inner and general thinking styles with the creativity. there was also a positive and significant relationship between all styles of thinking with tendency to innovation. with increasing the academic motivation, there was only a significant relationship between general and executive thinking styles with the academic motivation, whereas in other styles there was no significant relationship with the academic motivation. discussion: based on that, it is suggested to design and implement the methods and the training process in accordance with the student's type and style of thinking to guide and encourage them to pay attention to creativity and innovation, as well as academic motivation at universities and educational institutions.